Do you have a clear vision for where you want the product to be in one month, six months?

When you advertise a programmer vacancy how many applications do you get?

How many people have left, and how many have joined in the last year?

Do you have people working for you now, who worked for you elsewhere in the past?

How do you capture user feedback about the product, who sees it?

How many releases have you had in the last year?

What keeps you awake at night?

Do you make interviewee’s write code?

This one is pretty obvious though any assessment of scalability extends beyond the system itself to include the technical organization, and the answers to the first two questions below will indicate how the respondent thinks about scalability, not just from a technical perspective, but an organizational one also.

This one is pretty obvious though any assessment of scalability extends beyond the system itself to include the technical organization, and the answers to the first two questions below will indicate how the respondent thinks about scalability, not just from a technical perspective, but an organizational one also.